Program Description:

Our redesigned MBA program is uniquely focused on a thematic approach to your advanced business studies. The program is built to offer flexibility in curriculum; course scheduling and offerings, students’ career and professional services, customizable program delivery and a strong connection to industry. The 48 credit program also allows for up to 18 credits in waivers for students who successfully completed prior business foundational courses.

In addition, the Cotsakos College of Business has is fully accredited by AACSB International – The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. AACSB accreditation represents the highest standard of achievement for business schools worldwide. Only about fifteen percent of business schools in the world are accredited by AACSB.

Curriculum Highlights:

The new curriculum offers a lower core with prominence on strong managerial soft skill development and cross functional knowledge in all areas of business; strengthened by an upper core with integrative and strategy-oriented focus where emphasis on leadership which permeates all courses.

Concentration Areas:

Our focused areas of concentration are intended to help strengthen your business acumen in various areas related directly to the demands of industry (Accounting, General Studies, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Marketing and Music Management) add a unique value to our MBA program. With the addition of over 13 new MBA courses (such as Innovation, Strategy, and Corporate Sustainability, Business Analytics, and Influence, Persuasion and Negotiation Strategy) students will benefit from a progressive curriculum that provides a multidisciplinary business approach. These courses have been hand-picked by academically qualified faculty members who engage in practice and policy-oriented research to increase your leadership and profound business knowledge.

Program Flexibility:

Traditional MBA face-to-face courses are delivered in the evenings and weekends and are complimented by flexible hybrid and fully online offerings throughout each semester. Students are encouraged to meet with the MBA Director to discuss the planning of their studies at the onset of their MBA degree.

Admission Requirements:

Cumulative grade point average of no less than 3.00 on 4.00 scale.

Minimum score of 500 on the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) or a minimum score of a 152 verbal and a 152 quantitative on the Graduate Record Examination(GRE).

Students who have an undergraduate GPA above 3.2 from an AACSB-accredited institution and those with advanced degrees, such as PhD, EdD, JD and MD will be waived from the GMAT requirement.

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Program Requirements:

48 credits of graduate study.

Up to 18 lower-core credits may be waived. The only credit hours eligible for waiver consideration are: (a) completed with a grade of B or better; and (b) earned within the most recent six years. Students with a specialized background in a lower-core course area may be given permission to waive the lower-core coursework and substitute advanced or related coursework in that area. In some cases, students may apply to waive lower core credit hours by virtue of examination scores (i.e., the CPA exam).